View of a collapsed frame, probably one-story house, in Woodstock near Pitkin (Gunnison County), Colorado west of Alpine Pass. A wooden plank supports an unstable wall. A brick chimney, wooden shingles, and rafters are in the debris pile of the demolished building. Shovels are in snow piles.

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Condition: scratched, worn and stained.; Inked on verso: "Scene where 13 men, women and children were buried in a snow slide."; Penciled on verso: "Woodstock snow slide which wrecked entire village near Alpine Pass on the South Park RR in March 1884[?]"; Photographer's stamp on verso above stamp that reads: "C. H. Clark, Publisher and General Trade Agent, Gunnison, Colo."; Title inked on original negative and reproduced in photographic print is partly legible and reads: "Ruins Woodstock, March [18]84."; Title supplied.; R7110027681

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